It’s like I can feel myself detach from whatever topic I’m listening to as I expect it to be a lead up for Raid Shadow Legends.
It’s like I’m gonna disengage from serious things because I’m just waiting to see how they are going to ask for money.
I get it’s to keep engagement, but it’s doing the opposite. I don’t want you to slip between conversation into a commercial like that’s not creepy as fuck. It’s like the Truman show, but nobody’s even watching you. I dunno, it’s not fun out here.
It depends how it’s done in my opinion. I used to watch Veritasium and then he did a video on self-driving cars. Which ended up just being a sponsorship for a specific company.
You probably know this, but in case not and for others interested, Tom Nicholas did a whole video about that specific incident and youtubers doing corporate propaganda in general. It was pretty good. I also unsubscribed from Veritasium around then, mostly because of their doubling down after the TN video rather than acknowledging it. A shame because Veritasium was pretty decent as far as that kind of channel goes.
I’m with OP though. The embedded “this video is sponsored by” ads, no matter how ironically or cleverly a youtuber inserts it in, still seriously rankles me. All the more when leftist “content creators” do it. It just feels all the more hypocritical.
Especially funny since Tom Nichols has shilled snake oil VPNs and other crap. He is kinda what this thread is about.
Yeah, the same with all The Deprogram boys too.
JT is quite bad with it, and even Hakim goes into long, tedious ads for VPNs. It’s nearly inescapable and it sucks.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That’s a pretty big ooof. I think when it gets to that point, you abandon ship.
IDK if Veritasium was always ass or if its a more recently thing, but it feels like a decent chunk of their recent stuff is either
reddit garbage or thinly veiled ads. That video about the speed of light in a copper wire lives in my head
What’s that one about? I’m not going back to his channel to watch it.
The basic premise is “if you have a lightbulb and a switch separated by a light-second long wire, how long does it take the lightbulb to light up?” The real answer is obviously one second, but if the lightbulb is near the switch, it will receive a very small amount of charge from the electromagnetic field of the wire as soon as you turn it on, so technically it’ll receive like 1% of the power immediately and 99% once the electricity makes it down the wire.